Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/11/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Marc- I know I am gonna get flamed, but I have always wanted to know- and you seem to be the quintessential answer man! Did the progeny of the Hapsburgs really have tails!? I have heard that rumor for so many years, and have wondered more about that than I did about Katherine the Greats supposedly strange sexual proclivities! Dan ( waiting to be made aghast at the answer!) Post > Wow! To set the record straight: > > King George III was the first of the House of Hanover to speak English more > fluently than German -- his great-grandfather, George I, spoke virtually no > English, and his grandfather, George II, preferred German to English. > > George III was also King of Hannover. He had no connection with Prussia > save that both he and the King of Prussia were electors in the Holy Roman > Empire. > > The German troops employed by the British in the American Revolutionary War > were Hessians. George III had no connection with Hesse, either: these > guys were hired by the British government. > > Wilhelm II was the grandson, not the nephew, of Queen Victoria. His mother > was Victoria's oldest child. Wilhelm was the nephew of King Edward VII, > who had a habit of treating Wilhelm as a petulant child. (Victoria had > been much more successful in keeping Wilhelm's self-destructive tendencies > at bay.) > > Marc > > msmall@roanoke.infi.net FAX: +540/343-7315 > Cha robh bas fir gun ghras fir! > >